New World species of Asymphyloptera Collin (Diptera: Empididae: Clinocerinae)
Author
Sinclair, Bradley J.
text
Zootaxa
2015
4048
4
553
564
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4048.4.6
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1175-5326
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Asymphyloptera havasu
sp. nov.
(
Fig. 14
)
Type
material
.
HOLOTYPE
, ♂ labelled: “
USA
: AZ:Grand Canyon NP/ CR#7, Elves Canyon [Chasm]/
10– 21.v.1998
/ J.F. MacDonald”; “
HOLOTYPE
/
Asymphyloptera
/
havasu
/ Sinclair [red label]” (
CNC
).
PARATYPES
:
USA
.
Arizona
: Same data as
holotype
(
2 ♂
, 2 ♀,
CNC
); Grand Canyon NP, CR#15, Fern Canyon,
10–21.v.1998
, J.F. MacDonald (
1 ♂
, 2 ♀,
CNC
); Grand Canyon NP, CR#3, Saddle Canyon,
10–21.v.1998
, J.F. MacDonald (
1 ♂
,
USNM
).
Recognition
. This mostly dark species may be distinguished by pale fore coxa (viewed anteriorly) and dark pleura; narrow, tapered surstylus with pointed apex; apex of phallus expanded, membranous and strongly bent anteriorly.
Description
.
Male
. Postpedicel globular with long, slender apical extension, arising subapically. Ocellar setae stout, similar in length to postpedicel extension. Labrum slightly shorter than clypeus; palpus brown, subequal to labrum, tapered to slender apex.
Pleura dark brown with thin bluish pruinescence. Chaetotaxy very stout; 1 pprn short, very slender; 2 npl, lower slender and shorter; 4 dc, anterior dc offset; 2 apical sctl, slightly longer than prescutellar dc, lacking lateral sctl. Legs brown, fore coxae pale yellowish-brown (anterior view); fore and mid femora with antero- and posteroventral rows of pale, slender setae, subequal in length to width of femur; fore tibia with biserial row of erect setae. Wing length 1.7–2.0 mm; crossvein h distinct; base of wing with slender setulae along posterior margin. Halter pale, yellowish-brown.
Male terminalia (
Fig. 14
): Cercus with anterior lobe slightly produced; posterior lobe long, slender. Hypandrium prolonged as broad, paired postgonites; apical margin of postgonite not extended anteriorly, apex pointed. Epandrium narrow, with elongate setae on apical half. Surstylus shorter than cercus, slender, arched, tapered to pointed apex; not extending beyond phallus. Phallus straight; apex expanded, membranous, strongly bent anteriorly; apical margin hooked anteriorly; ejaculatory apodeme narrow, short, not expanded.
Female
. Similar to male except as follows: lacking long ventral setae on fore and mid femora and fore tibia. Terminalia not dissected.
Etymology
. Named after the Havasupai, a native American tribe that have lived for centuries in the Grand Canyon region;
Havasu
means “blue-green water” and
pai
“people”.
Distribution
. Known from several seepages along the Colorado River, collected by John MacDonald during a survey in Grand Canyon National Park (
Fig. 17
).
Remarks
. This species was collected in deeply shaded madicolous habitats on the canyon walls, formed by cold streams flowing down narrow slot canyons (
Figs 6, 7
). These sites are characterized by mosses and maidenhair ferns (MacDonald pers. comm. 2015).